Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Statement (PPS)
Our Commitment to You
SD Healthcare Professional Agency understands the value of safeguarding our clients’ visitors, networks, and team members’ privacy while ensuring transparency and accountability in the manner we deal with the information they choose to share with us.
This Privacy Policy Statement (PPS) applies to SD Healthcare Professional Agency Inc. with corporate registration number 1489507-0. As part of our commitment to protecting your privacy and personal information, we provide this PPS to explain our management practices for personal information that we collect, use, or disclose while providing our services and through our website.
SD Healthcare Professional Agency is committed to handling personal information in accordance with all legal and professional obligations, as well as the principles outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Personal Information
In general, personal information is any information that is used for identification purposes. It relates to any accurate or subjective information about a specific individual, whether it is recorded or not. 

How and Why, We Collect your Personal Information
SD Healthcare Professional Agency collects personal information for the sole purpose of providing employment, placement services and information to our clients and prospective clients.
SDHPA collects a variety of information about clients based on the employment, placement services and information they have requested. SDHPA makes every effort to collect personal information directly from the person to whom the information pertains. These records may include the following but not limited to:

• Contact Information —name, address, telephone numbers, email address, and fax number.
• Identification: depending upon the nature of services, photocopies of valid government- issued identification, driver’s license, or birth certificate;
• Information relating to your placement services: depending upon the nature of services and placement, information about your family and employment status.
• Information provided by you: information provided by you during your communications with SD Healthcare Professional Agency or information relevant to your employment.
• Legal or Professional requirements: information permitted or required to be collected by law or to meet our professional obligations.
• Relevant Parties: information about references and licensing requirements.
SD Healthcare Professional Agency may use your personal information for the following reasons:
• Services/Information: to provide the employment services and information that you may have requested and to invite you to seminars/orientations or other events that may be of interest to you;
• Communication: to report to you about your file and/or respond to your requests or inquiries;
• Legal or Professional requirements: to meet our legal and professional obligations.
• To improve client service: information you provide helps us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
• To improve our website: we may use feedback you provide to improve our products and services.
• To personalize User experience: we may use information in the aggregate to understand how our visitors as a group use the services and resources provided on our website.
• To send intermittent emails: we may use the email address you provide to respond to clients’ inquiries, questions and/or other requests. If a User decides to join our mailing list, they will receive emails that may include company news, updates, related service information, and many more. If at any time the User would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.
Please keep in that users can always refuse to provide personal identification information, but doing so may prevent them from participating in certain website related activities.

Disclosure of your Personal Information
In a very limited circumstances, we may disclose your information to third party service providers who help us administer our relationship with you in the normal course of business. SDHPA may disclose your personal information to third parties based on your express or implied consent where the employment services you have requested require us to do so.
SDHPA does not sell, trade, or rent User’s personal identification information to others in relation to our Website.
We may share generic aggregated demographic information about visitors that is not linked to any personal identification information with our partners, trusted associates, and advertisers for the purposes outlined above. Third-party service providers may be used to assist us in operating our business and the Website, as well as to administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out surveys. 

Third Party Service Providers
SDHPA employs third-party service providers to assist us in our regular functions. Third-party companies may share, store, process, or host information collected on this Site. Our third parties include social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn, as well as Google Analytics, which Google Inc. uses to contextualize and personalize ads on its own advertising network.
Our website may contain content that links to the websites and services of our partners, suppliers, licensors, and other entities. SDHPA has no control over the content or links that appear on these websites and is not liable for their actions.

Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work or work more efficiently. We do not use cookies to track individual visitors or to identify them, but to gain useful knowledge about how the site is used so that we can keep improving it for our users.
If you do not wish to receive cookies from us, you can turn cookies off on your website browser.

COMMITTMENT TO DATA SECURITY
All personal information you share with SD Healthcare Professional Agency is kept electronically secure and accessed by authorized persons only.
SD Healthcare Professional Agency will take reasonable steps to ensure that all information we collect are protected against loss or theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or unauthorized modification. Further, we use password protocols, encryption, and security software to protect personal information We update our software periodically to enhance protection.

CONSENT, WITHDRAWING CONSENT, AND ACCESS TO INFORMATION
SD Healthcare Professional Agency obtains the consent of its members and other stakeholders to use their information for the purposes it was collected. Based on this Policy and the statements we make to you at the time we collect your information, we trust that you understand how we use your information and the limited circumstances in which it is shared with third parties.
However, you can also opt out of further collection, use, or disclosure of your personal information, as well as receiving our publications. However, please keep in mind that if you withdraw your consent to further collection, use, or disclosure of your personal information, we may be unable to continue to provide you with certain placement/employment services.

Privacy Policy Changes
SD Healthcare Professional Agency reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice. When we do, we will post a notice on our website’s main page and update the date at the bottom of this page. We encourage visitors to check this page frequently to stay up to date on how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy on a regular basis and be aware of any changes.

Acceptance of Privacy Policy Terms
By using this website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Statement. Refrain from using our website or provide personal information about yourself or others if you do not agree to this Privacy Policy. Following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy, your continued use of the website or provision of personal information to SD Healthcare Professional Agency will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

Expressing Concern (s)
If you require further explanation or have a question or concern about how we treat your information or would like to withdraw your consent, please send us an email  at info@sdhealthcare.ca